Virtual Riot is an instructor at Slam Academy, where he teaches advanced electronic music production. You can be one of his students by becoming a member at Slam! learn more at www.slamacademy.com
I'm in his class currently, and it's 100% the most incredible experience learning from him at Slam Academy. HIGHLY recommend enrolling if production and DJing is your passion. I've been producing about 15 years, in class with some new producers. The courses are for everyone. It's amazing.
I think one of the most interesting aspects of Virtual Riot as an artist is his willingness to use plugins unconventionally and that reflects greatly in his music.
This deserves to be named masterclass. Never heard of this guy before but this was a funny, weird and very educational video. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
I love Virtual Riot and just wanted to geek out a bit on that example he gave that "if you keep doubling your frequencies you will end up in the frequency of visible light". While doubling the frequency of a sound wave increases its pitch by one octave, it does not transform the sound wave into visible light. Sound and light are fundamentally different types of waves. Sound is a mechanical wave that propagates through a medium by causing compressions and rarefactions of molecules, and its speed is limited by the properties of the medium. Light, on the other hand, is an electromagnetic wave that does not require a medium to propagate and always travels at the speed of light in a vacuum. Even if you keep doubling the frequency of a sound wave (increasing its pitch), it will still be a sound wave traveling through a medium (such as air) and subject to the limitations of the speed of sound in that medium. It will not spontaneously transform into light or reach the speed of the visible spectrum, which is much higher. The visible spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with much higher frequencies and significantly greater energy levels than audible sound waves. This is why you can't hear any sound in outer space once you leave the atmosphere because sound has no medium to propagate through. In summary, while you can change the pitch of a sound by altering its frequency, this will not turn it into visible light or cause it to travel at the speed of light because sound and light are distinct phenomena with different underlying principles.
@@mattyb8929 You'll end up in the same frequencies as frequencies in the visible light spectrum. You won't get visible light, but the frequencies will be the same.
@@teolandon225 I get what you're trying to say but that's just a massive oversimplification and not entirely true. You need to understand the difference between mechanical wave vs electromagnetic wave. Even if you were to significantly increase the speed of sound through a medium, you would still be dealing with mechanical waves in the audible frequency range, not electromagnetic waves in the visible light spectrum. Simply increasing the speed of sound won't change its fundamental nature as a mechanical wave with much lower frequencies. In the context of sound waves, you can't simply increase the frequency indefinitely because the speed of sound in a given medium remains relatively constant within the audible range. TLDR: you can't just "speed up sound until it reaches the frequency of the visible spectrum" it just doesn't work like that due to the limitations of the medium. You are imagining sound as just as hz and numbers that you can multiply until you get a number as big as light waves, but that's not how physics work in the real world.
@@mattyb8929 Doesn't matter, VR isn't saying you should actually double the frequency of your note until it reaches visible light. It's just a way of mapping notes to colors to then make the comparison of perfect fifths to complementary colors. Doesn't have to actually happen in the real world. If somehow humans could see electromagnetic waves in the sub 20KHz spectrum region, we wouldn't even have to double the frequency a bunch of times to get the mapping.
Bro this is like producing music, but for aliens instead of people, but I love it😂🙌 so different to anything else I've ever encountered production wise 👍🤣
I can’t wait to see you at edc this weekend!!!! And thanks for the class! Turned this on while doing chores and had to go sit in front of daw instead because I got so stoked lol (update) virtual riot was my favorite part of the whole festival. I hope to see him again soon!
Dude wtf i run FL studio and literally have his work flow template. I randomly made it to make it easier for me to sidechain and mix and i have my sidechain midi triggered as well lmao. Good to know im in the right direction, haha
31:12 V-riot is saying it sounds like dolphins but we all know it’s really the sound of someone unloading their spicy Taco Bell 🔥😂 still turned it into an absolute banger tho! 🔥🔥🔥
Holy Shiiiiii, he's the only other person ive seen talk about the relationship of sound to color. its changed how I make music, for anyone interested, C = Green C# = Teal D = Cyan blue D# = Royal Blue E = Indigo F = Violet F# = Magenta G = Red G# = Blood Orange A = Orange A# = Yellow B = Charteuse These are just the colors as Ive worked them out, using the octave doubling method, may not be exact to reality, but now I think of notes as these colors
